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General Knowledge Quiz 352 (60 MCQs)

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1. What does HTML stand for?
2. The Union Jack, the British flag, is a combination of flags of different saints. Where does the blue come from?
3. What is the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia?
4. What type of growth is a potato?
5. Who won all the Grand Slam major tennis tournaments in 1970?
6. Which name is associated with the IT developments which grew into Microsoft?
7. Which of these is a medical term for coughing up blood, associated with lung and heart disease?
8. What is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world, and the second-longest-running medical drama in the world behind America's "General Hospital" ?
9. Louis Goldenberg and Alva J. Fisher have been credited with the invention of what device?
10. After Sir William Herschel observed Uranus on 13 March 1781 while in the garden of his house in Bath, England, he reported it as a what?
11. Alderney is one of which group of islands?
12. Which of these is an alternative name for blacklead?
13. "General Sherman" in California, USA, is the name of what?
14. Sunday Rose are the names of the daughter of Nicole Kidman and whom?
15. Why did Charles de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne establish a foundation in 1945 for people who have Down's Syndrome?
16. Which of these was not written by Oscar Wilde?
17. Who released an album in 2005 called "Confessions on a Dance Floor" ?
18. The following is an extract from what work? "Lo! where the Giant on the mountain stands, His blood-red tresses deep'ning in the sun, With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands, And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon" .
19. The asteroid belt is a series of rocks that orbit the sun between Mars and which other planet?
20. "Prediction is hazardous, especially about the future" is attributed to where?
21. What is the name for a mixture of clay, sand and silt?
22. After golfer Tiger Woods won the Masters in 2019, which of these could be said?
23. What US TV sitcom that ran for 7 years to 19 March 1977 was the first to have an independent career woman, Mary Richards, as the central character?
24. In art, what is the term used for the process of producing an effect by means of dots or small marks with brush or pencil?
25. Where was the first motor race to regularly carry the name Grand Prix, the first of which took place in 1906 on a circuit roughly triangular in shape, each lap covering 105 kilometres (65 miles)?
26. What word means to watch other people play a game?
27. What mineral takes its name from the Greek word for "unquenchable" or "inextinguishable" ?
28. Who was the Puritan leader and first governor of the Pilgrim Fathers, who organised the voyage of the Mayflower to Plymouth, New Hampshire?
29. Which of these is NOT a dangerous gas that forms naturally in a coal mine?
30. Which American became a professional golfer in 2005 at 16 years of age after, in 2000 aged 10, being the youngest player to qualify for the Women's US Amateur Public Links Championship, and, in 2002, the youngest player to qualify for a LPGA tour event?
31. From 1990 to 1995 the World Rowing Cup was a competition for which class?
32. Which of these is a small rodent found in the alpine regions of Europe, Asia and North America?
33. What was the subject of the final (20 million rupee) question on the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" programme that featured in the film Slumdog Millionaire?
34. The reign of Isabella I of Spain and her husband King Ferdinand II were responsible for which of these?
35. What was the fate of Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian who helped Germany to invade and conquer Norway in 1940?
36. The discovery was announced in 2014 of what proved to be nearly 40, 000 years old what, in caves in Sulawesi, Indonesia?
37. The Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park, established 1995, contains a major untouched coral reef system and has seen major reestablishment of marine stocks and variety:where is it?
38. What island was occupied by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Goths, Saracens, Normans, and the Angevin, Hapsburg and Bourbon dynasties until it became part of United Italy in 1861?
39. Some species of this insect carry the parasite which causes Chagas disease, some use plant resin to help catch prey, some inject a toxin, some suck human blood, and all have a curved beak which lies in a groove between the front legs. What is it?
40. Which character has inspired plays by Christopher Marlowe, W. S. Gilbert, Gertrude Stein, Paul Valéry & Václav Havel, operas by Berlioz, Gounod, Busoni, Prokofiev & Stravinsky and music by Schubert, Wagner, Schumann, Liszt, Mussorgsky & Mahler?
41. Who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)?
42. Which of these does WCC 2012 not refer to?
43. John Milton created what name for the capital of Hell in his poem "Paradise Lost" ?
44. Who was the ground-breaking director of the American film "The Birth of a Nation" ?
45. What apparatus is used to artificially hatch eggs?
46. The word "horror" comes from a Latin word meaning what?
47. Which is the largest area?
48. Where is the longest railway tunnel, opened in 2016?
49. What is the term given to the tilt of an aeroplane about its longitudinal axis?
50. In "Five Minute Stories" by Laura Richards, who was said to dance "Oh, high and disposedly, Tips-of-her-toesedly, ..... "?
51. What is the sum of the digits of the product of any number between 1 & 9 multiplied by 9?
52. Africa is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean and which other major body of water?
53. The many hundreds of islands in the western Pacific region known as Micronesia includes five sovereign nations, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and Nauru and which two others?
54. If someone is urged to give something some welly, what are they being invited to do?
55. What multi-user adventure game was developed from 1978 by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle from 1980, students at Essex University in the UK, that revolved around gaining points till one achieved the wizard rank, giving the player immortality and certain powers over mortals?
56. An English physicist in 1913 demonstrated the first justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of what?
57. Which of these is famous for dancing in the rain with an umbrella in a film?
58. What is a heterodyne?
59. What is a Tasmanian Devil?
60. In which film directed by Fred Zinnemann does a US Army officer in Germany (Montgomery Clift) look after a homeless boy (Ian Jandl) until he is returned to his mother (Jarmila Novotna)?
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